Source: Night Thoughts: Or, the Complaint and the Consolation
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Source: A vindication of providence: or, A true estimate of human life, discourse i
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”
Source: Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]
Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author
“When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees”
Source: Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works
“In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.”